Awarded sixteen month Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Research and writing of book on visual art and new theories of modernity

Editorial roles

Associate Editor of Journal of Visual Art Practice,1999 onwards

Research Project Organisation and Management

Responsible for running and development of RQA Art and Design unit at Leeds Metropolitan University, including seminars, research training, conferences, and preparation and writing of RQA submissions,1994-2000.

Co-initiator and leading role in 'Poetics and Visual Art' collaborative and inter-disciplinary project, 2001 onwards.

Teaching

Extensive undergraduate teaching in the studio (fine art practice) and historical and critical studies, including eight years as course leader of BA (Hons) Fine Art at Leeds Polytechnic (at that time a course with one of the best reputations in the UK). During my time as course leader the programme was awarded the highest possible grade by independent government inspectors.

MA teaching in art theory

Research degrees: supervision of four successful doctoral candidates; external examination of theory and practice doctorate at Lancaster University, cultural and social theory at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Central Lancashire

External examining

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth College of Arts,1997-2001

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths' College,1998-2000

MA Fine Art, City and Guilds London Art School, 2000-2003

BA (Hons) Art and Philosophy, University of Dundee, 2002-2006

MA Sociology of Contemporary Culture, York University, 2006-

BA s in Art and Design subjects, visual culture modules, University of the West of England, 2007-

Additional Information

Selected Publications

Books

Social Theories of Art: A Critique. London: Macmillan

Interpreting Visual Culture: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of the Visual, London and New York, Routledge, 1998 (with Barry Sandywell),

'Particularity and the Good of Perception' Theoros Group Conference in conjunction with British Society for Aesthetics, School of Historical Visual Studies, Cardiff Institute of Higher Education,1995

'Art, Ethics and Perception', Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium, Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Idea, University of Humanist Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands,1996

'Cubism, Disembedding and Reembedding' British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of York, 2004

2006 'Orphic Guidelines: Art and Rhetoric of Research', a refereed paper for the Third International Conference, Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design. Enhancing the Curricula, Hotel Sana Park, Portugal

2006 'Recognising Drives and Transmitting Values, invited paper, 25th Anniversary Conference of the international journal Leisure Studies, University of Loughborough

2007 'Current Aspects of Visual Culture Studies', open public lecture for the University of the West of England, Waterside, Bristol